The EuroVelo network provides great opportunities for unforgettable adventures. The way becomes the journey. Swiss-based Canadian Brian Roodnick used the network this year to follow a call for volunteering to teach in the refugee camp Moria on the Greek island of Lesvos. Read here the first part of…
Throughout the last weeks, our colleague Aleksander Buczyński, ECF’s Infrastructure Officer, has been taking a closer look at the EuroVelo 19 – Meuse Cycle Route. In this fourth and final instalment, he explains how it fits into the EuroVelo network.
Exploring Spain by bike has just become easier with a new tool developed by Funbici.
Throughout the autumn our colleague Aleksander Buczyński, the ECF’s Infrastructure Officer, is using EuroVelo 19 – Meuse Cycle Route to take a closer look at route planning. In this second instalment, he highlights EuroVelo 19 – Meuse Cycling Route as an example of good practice of the backbone app…
De komende maanden zal onze collega Aleksander Buczyński, de infrastructuurmedewerker van de ECF, de EuroVelo 19 - Maasfietsroute gebruiken om het onderwerp routeplanning onder de loep te nemen. Om enige context te bieden, kijkt hij in deze eerste aflevering naar de verschillende benaderingen die v…
If you need proof that you can cycle the EuroVelo routes any time of the year: Read the winter travel report of the Abicyclette Voyages travel agency team in this advertorial.
British sound artist and cyclist Paul Cheese is not unknown to the EuroVelo Team. In April 2018, he cycled 2,650 km along Eurovelo routes 11, 8, 5, 7 through Greece and Italy, capturing the sounds of fantastic locations along the way and creating a song with this material – and in September of the …
This year was a summer like no other. As our plans got cancelled, we had to improvise new ways of enjoying our holidays, often closer to home than originally planned. But new constraints can also give birth to new ideas; and for many of us, including ECF's co-CEO Jill Warren and EuroVelo team membe…
Between 17th and 28th July 2020, Anuj Karkare and Sushil Reddy from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay completed a cycle journey of more than 700 kilometres in 10 days from Paris to Amsterdam, as a part of the cause The SunPedal Ride – a solar energy awareness initiative.
Over the past few months, we have been raising awareness on cycle tourism with the #RestartCycleTourism digital campaign, aiming to grab the attention of key stakeholders, policymakers and decisionmakers to achieve greater funding and investment in cycle tourism. Now that the summer – but not the c…
Good news for those wanting to cycle the Croatian section of EuroVelo 8 - Mediterranean Route: there is now a new website where you can find all the information cycling tourists need for exploring this popular route. Our Croatian National EuroVelo Coordination Centre, the Croatian Tourist Board, re…
Als onderdeel van de #RestartCycleTourism campagne hebben we deze zomer fietsers opgeroepen om hun eigen omgeving te verkennen en hun beste fietsvakantiefoto van de EuroVelo 15 - Rijnfietsroute of EuroVelo 19 - Maasfietsroute met ons te delen. De winnaars van deze zomerfotowedstrijd zijn nu bekend!
During lockdown, everybody was talking about “The world after”. The world after lockdown; after the coronavirus pandemic is over; after country borders open again…the list goes on. But this summer, as it becomes clear that the pandemic is not going to end anytime soon, one idea is starting to becom…
Regionale partners in Nederland hebben een uniek initiatief ontwikkeld om het Limburgse deel van de LF Maasroute (het Nederlandse deel van EuroVelo 19 - Maasfietsroute) extra onder de aandacht te brengen. In samenwerking met kunstenaar Patrick Kusters hebben de Provincie Limburg en tien gemeenten o…
Bernd Schadowski (47) is an enthusiastic long distance cyclist, blogger and author. He loves bicycle touring. The proximity to nature. The unforeseen encounters with exciting and unconventional people.
Blogger Jei V. Bi explored EuroVelo 2 - Capitals Route in London earlier this year and sent us a story of the journey, showing that EuroVelo routes can also provide a nice cycle ride for a one-day city trip. Follow the route across the capital of the United Kingdom, take in the sights and don't for…
Throughout the summer, we will use the #RestartCycleTourism hashtag in relation to the various initiatives popping up to revive cycle tourism. The campaign aims to highlight these actions and connect them together as an answer to this year’s unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. We want to build on the cu…
Bernd Schadowski (47) is an enthusiastic long distance cyclist, blogger and author. He loves bicycle touring. The proximity to nature. The unforeseen encounters with exciting and unconventional people.
The Hungarian website www.EuroVelo.hu was launched a few months ago, following the structure of EuroVelo.com. This website offers detailed information and news about the EuroVelo routes crossing Hungary: EuroVelo 6 – Atlantic-Black Sea, EuroVelo 11 – East Europe Route, EuroVelo 13 – Iron Curtain Tr…
Het is weer zomer, tijd voor de jaarlijkse EuroVelo Zomerfotowedstrijd! Deel de beste foto van je fietsvakantie langs EuroVelo 15 of EuroVelo 19 en maak kans op een fietsarrangement langs een deel van deze routes. Onze Instagram-volgers kiezen de winnaar!
We are delighted to be able to present the seventeenth route in the European cycle route network: EuroVelo 14 – Waters of Central Europe.
De lockdownmaatregelen worden overal in Europa geleidelijk aan versoepeld, maar daadwerkelijke door Europa reizen zal de komende weken en maanden waarschijnlijk beperkt blijven. Het plannen van de zomervakantie zal dit jaar een beetje een uitdaging zijn. Met #EuroVeloAtHome laten we je zien dat het…
Op basis van de Europese certificeringsnorm (ECS) en met behulp van gedetailleerde vragenlijsten is het grootste deel van de EuroVelo15 Rijnfietsroute opnieuw gecertificeerd en daarmee de hoge kwaliteit bevestigd.
Are you keen for some more ideas for films and books to inspire your next cycling adventure? During our research into our first article we discovered many more films and books about exciting journeys on two wheels, so we thought we share these with you too.
De COVD-19 pandemie en de lockdowns die momenteel in de meeste delen van de wereld van kracht zijn, maken het voor velen van ons lastig om fietsvakanties in de zomer te plannen. Het zijn onzekere tijden en we weten niet wanneer het weer veilig is om te reizen. Met #EuroVeloAtHome willen we uitnodig…
“There’s nothing I like better than coming up with challenges that other people consider crazy, impossible, or simply too difficult and tiring to be fun.” In 2019, Myra Stals decided to make a statement against plastic pollution by picking up as much plastic waste as possible while she was on her b…
In this period of lockdown, which provides a good opportunity for learning new things, we invite you to discover the work of Mégane Millet Lacombe, a landscape designer who graduated from the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles, France in 2017.
In many places in the world right now, we are facing an extraordinary period confined to our own homes in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. Although we might not be able to undertake cycling adventures far from home at the moment – indeed some of you may have had to postpone or …
The ADFC again presented its traditional Bicycle Travel Analysis this year. It is already the 21st time! The ADFC’s figures are among the best available data on bicycle travels and the popularity of individual routes in general. EuroVelo routes again featured prominently among the top routes this …
Eight of Germany’s 16 federal states have developed a Germany-wide cycle route planner. This new tool facilitates tour planning by bringing together the individual cycle route planners of each state in one website.